I have been reading on the BBC today that some rather clever
boffins at Oxford University have discovered that playing Tetris can indeed
help with dealing with post traumatic stress disorder. The nostalgic memories
of bashing away on a Gameboy for hours on end came flooding back to me...
This Christmas proved to be a good one for next generation
home entertainment. They actually grew 400% on the previous Christmas period.
Around 1.5 million Blu-ray discs were sold in December as well.
This increase in sales of the new format has been helped
along by the fact that...
Web browser maker Opera has announced that mobile web browsing has become more popular this year. This is a bit of a breakthrough for mobile browsing and it's great to see that people are embracing the fact that they're able to surf the Internet on the move.
According to Opera's...
I read some really cool news on Gizmodo this morning, regarding Japan's innovative way of powering their Christmas decorations. Outside one of their busiest train stations, commuters will be supplying the energy for their fairy lights. All the dozens of people who walk over a 90 cm square...
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I trust that everybody has been busy in the run up to Christmas? I went for a wander into Peterborough city centre at the weekend as I was visiting my parents and the whole place was heaving! Fitting in with that trend, we're also pretty off our feet at Laskys Towers. No doubt Christmas...
I read today on Gizmodo that the BBC will be streaming live TV via the Internet later this month. Both BBC 1 and BBC 2 will be available to be viewed online from 27 th November.
BBC radio stations are already available online, so I suppose it was always going to be a matter of time...
Hi there. For the regular readers of the Laskys Technology Blog, you'd be forgiven for thinking that I might have packed it in. It's true that I haven't been posting much over the past few weeks, but for good reason! I and the other foot soldiers at Laskys Towers have been furiously preparing...
News that caught my eye today was that the BBC is apparently trying to push high definition content through Freesat in time for the South African World Cup Finals in 2010.
Densely populated areas such as London can look forward to the visual treat. The BBC are asking whether or not...
This is quite a momentous occasion. Approximately 50 posts ago, I said that I'd stop counting, but it's not easy to forget, especially as we have a post counter on the site. In fact, it's particularly easy to keep count! This marks the blog's landmark 100th post, making us CENTURIONS!! If...
Congratulations go to Catherine Agca! Catherine was the very lucky winner of our reverse text auction and ended up buying our £700 LCD TV for the paltry sum of 6 pence! Feel free to rub your eyes because it sounds insane, but I can assure you that it is entirely true. We caught up with...